Coalition elects new chair and executive board

The NW Energy Coalition welcomed clean energy advocates from around the region to its jam-packed NW Clean & Affordable Energy Conference May 30 – June 1 in Boise.

The Coalition’s Saturday board meeting featured a special thank-you for outgoing board chair Chuck Magraw of Montana and the election of his successor, Jeff Bissonnette, a long-time clean energy advocate and organizing director of the Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon.

Others elected to the executive board represent a cross-section of the Coalition’s diverse membership. Officers include:

Vice-chair Megan Walseth Decker of the Renewable Northwest Project

Treasurer George Pohndorf, an individual member representative from Seattle

Secretary Katherine Schacht of the Emerald People’s Utility District

Jim Morton of Human Resource Council, District XI in Montana and Boise-based Pat Ford of the Save Our wild Salmon Coalition were also elected as at-large members of the executive board.